Many an atheist has joked, “Why did people even need the Ten Commandments? Are you saying people didn’t know that murder was wrong until it was written down?”
Like everything else in the Bible that is spiritually discerned, the unspiritual person cannot understand the purpose of giving the law in written form. The Law of God has been given for those who have become righteous in their own eyes.
“I don’t need God in order to be a good person.”
The purpose of the Law is to take the edge off their pride.
“You mean you never lie?
You never look at women as sexual objects?
You never inwardly smile when something bad happens to those you don’t like?
You love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength?”
Atheists joke about people not being able to keep the law without it being written down yet, even with the law in written form atheists aren’t able to obey it or acknowledge that what they’re doing is wrong. In fact, atheists can only consider themselves good in comparison to those who are worse.
The Gospel, on the other hand was given to those who recognise that without Jesus they are hopelessly and utterly lost.
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Where's the commandment that tells you not to marry a 12 year old girl against her will and then rape her?
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